Level 4 Lesson 19 / Less, Not completely / 덜

In this lesson, we look at how to say “less” in Korean. The word for “less” is 덜 [deol] in Korean, but 덜 can mean not only “less” but also “not completely”. Listen in to find out how to use the word 덜 in natural context, and in the comment section below, make as many sample sentences on your own as possible using the word. Thanks for studying with us! 감사합니다!

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4) If you want to exercise less, you should eat less – 덜 운동하고 싶으면, 덜 먹어야 돼요

5) If you do it this way, it’d be less difficult. – 이렇게 하면, 덜 어려울 거예요

감사합니다 🙂

Dania Freih

요즘 서울보다 제다가 덜 추워요. these days, Jeddah is less cold than Seoul. 한국 음식 중에서, 어떤 게 덜 매워요? Among Korean food, which is less spicy? *or shall I say “the least”? and would that be a different word in Korean?* 덜 먹었으면, 도와 줄 게. If you didn’t finish eating, I’ll help you.

you only learned English as in the USA that’s why you got a lot of the words and rules wrong if you want to learn proper lang go to the source not the copy i’m saying this coz the L sound in British is soft in most words and when you try to combine English and Korean i think it’s a wrong way to do it i mean we aren’t all English speakers and at least you should’ve followed the British ways instead of US and can you please stop doing the ROM in pdf we are lvl 4 now almost 5 it’s annoying skipping that everytime i read ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

Aaron Hallenbeck

It’s not wrong, it’s just a different dialect. The English language didn’t originate in Britain and there are many different dialects in both England and the US.